crystal laser

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A @S05736@ in which the @A00106@ is composed of ionic species supported in a crystalline host. The first @L03459@ used a ruby crystal in which chromium ions as the @A00106@ were supported in an aluminium oxide (sapphire) crystal. One of the most common crystal lasers involves neodymium atoms in a yttrium aluminium garnet host crystal (the @Y06721@:Nd @L03459@).
Source:
PAC, 1995, 67, 1913. (Nomenclature, symbols, units, and their usage in spectrochemical analysis-XV. Laser-based molecular spectroscopy for chemical analysis - laser fundamentals (IUPAC Recommendations 1995)) on page 1920 [Terms] [Paper]